TurboTax - Linux?

STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) stymar at lucent.com
Mon Feb 14 19:29:48 UTC 2005


> > 
> > why in the world would the TurboTax app be making any sort 
> of writes, 
> > let along changes of any kind to the disk's MBR?
> 
On Linux, running under wine as a normal (non-root) user, I
strongly suspect you could not modify the real master boot
record.  What wine would do when a write to the MBR was requested
is beyond my knowledge of wine.

I suppose it would be worth trying on a spare box just to
see what goes.

Bob Styma 




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